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Forbes Winslow. The Anatomy of Suicide
The Anatomy of Suicide
Table of Contents
PREFACE
ERRATA
CHAPTER I. SUICIDES OF THE ANCIENTS.—ANCIENT LAWS AND OPINIONS ON THE SUBJECT OF SUICIDE
CHAPTER II. WRITERS IN DEFENCE OF SUICIDE
CHAPTER III. SUICIDE A CRIME AGAINST GOD AND MAN.—IT IS NOT AN ACT OF COURAGE
CHAPTER IV. ON THE INFLUENCE OF CERTAIN MENTAL STATES IN INDUCING THE DISPOSITION TO SUICIDE
CHAPTER V. IMITATIVE, OR EPIDEMIC SUICIDE
CHAPTER VI. SUICIDE FROM FASCINATION
CHAPTER VII. OF THE ENTHUSIASM AND MENTAL IRRITABILITY WHICH, IF ENCOURAGED, WOULD LEAD TO SUICIDE
CHAPTER VIII. PHYSICAL CAUSES OF SUICIDE
CHAPTER IX. MORAL TREATMENT OF SUICIDAL MANIA
CHAPTER X. PHYSICAL TREATMENT OF THE SUICIDAL DISPOSITION
CHAPTER XI. IS THE ACT OF SUICIDE THE RESULT OF INSANITY?
CHAPTER XII. SUICIDE IN CONNEXION WITH MEDICAL JURISPRUDENCE
CHAPTER XIII. STATISTICS OF SUICIDE
CHAPTER XIV. APPEARANCES PRESENTED AFTER DEATH IN THOSE WHO HAVE COMMITTED SUICIDE
CHAPTER XV. SINGULAR CASES OF SUICIDE
CHAPTER XVI. CAN SUICIDE BE PREVENTED BY LEGISLATIVE ENACTMENTS?—INFLUENCE OF MORAL INSTRUCTION.—CONCLUSION
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Forbes Winslow
Published by Good Press, 2021
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During the bloody reign of Nero, many singular suicides took place. The particulars attending the deaths of Lucius Vetus, his mother-in-law Sextia, and Pollutia his daughter, are worth recording. After Lucius had distributed all his wealth among his domestics, requesting them to remove everything from his house excepting three couches, he, with his mother-in-law and daughter, retired into the same chamber, opened a vein with the same lancet, and after, reclining each on a separate couch, waited calmly the approach of death. His eyes, and those of his mother-in-law, were both fixed on the daughter, while the daughter’s wandered from one to the other. It was the earnest prayer of each of them to die first, and to leave the others in the act of expiring.4
When the throne of Sardanapalus was endangered, he conceived a magnificent and truly luxurious mode of committing suicide, quite in character with the extravagance and dissoluteness of his former life. He erected a funeral pile of great height in his palace, and adorned it with the most sumptuous and costly ornaments. In the middle of this building was a chamber of one hundred feet in length, built of wood, in which a number of golden couches and tables were spread. On one of these he reclined with his wife, his numerous concubines occupying the rest. The building was encompassed round at some distance with large beams and thick wood, to prevent all egress from the place. Much combustible matter, and an immense pile of wood were also placed within, together with an infinite quantity of gold and silver, royal vestments, costly apparel, rich furniture, curious ornaments, and all the apparatus of luxury and magnificence. All being arranged, this splendid funeral pile was set on fire, and continued burning until the fifteenth day; during which time Sardanapalus revelled in all kinds of sensualities. The multitude without were in astonishment at the tremendous scene, and at the immense clouds of incense and smoke which issued with the flames. It was stated that the king was engaged in offering some extraordinary sacrifices; while the attendants within alone knew that this dissolute prince was putting such a splendid end to his effeminate life.5
